NEW YORK: The leader government of Uber Technologies Inc has ordered an “pressing investigation” into claims of sexual harassment raised by way of a former engineer in a weblog submit.

Uber CEO calls for ‘pressing investigation

Susan Fowler, who left Uber in December, wrote that she used to be subjected to sexual advances thru a ‘string of messages’ over the corporate’s chat device from the start of her employment.

“What she describes is abhorrent and towards the whole thing Uber stands for and believes in,” CEO Travis Kalanick stated at the Twitter microblog on Sunday according to the Fowler’s submit. He stated he had advised Chief Human Resources Officer Liane Hornsey to behavior an pressing investigation.

Fowler wrote that Human Resources advised her the individual “used to be a top performer” and that control would now not be comfy in “giving him anything else rather than a caution”.

Arianna Huffington, editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, stated in a tweet that as a consultant of Uber’s board of administrators, she would paintings with Hornsey within the investigation.

The San Francisco-based corporate used to be now not in an instant to be had for remark.